- Mastodon at #4 is a little surprising because I did not think the album was loved as much as their prior albums. I guess I was wrong.

- Seeing The Chasm in top 10 of anything is pretty shocking but it's very cool to see that people are diggin' this truly amazing band.

- Oh sure, Slayer gets on the list by name alone regardless of the quality of the album. I understand that but many people shit on this album as much as the people who praised it so I expected them to be prolly 20 notches lower, give or take.

- I like Dream Theater but this last album was a bit of a disappointment and even the rabid DT fanboys were tame on their reaction to the album. Didn't think this would place high at all. I though it would be much, much lower.

- I expected Sacrifice to be in the top 10 or 15 easily. If they can't make the top 10 of this board, then they will never make a top 10. Plus, I think they deserve to be ranked that high.

- Voivod is a band again that by name alone, they should be in the top 25. Kind of surprised to see them drop.

- The thrash afficianados were boasting about the new Artillery when it came out. Seems like it lost some steam as the year went on.

- As for Warbringer, I wasn't expecting them to place in the top 30 or antyhing but it seemed that many were much more pleased with the second album over the debut and I thought it would show in the rankings. They seemed to have barely made the list.

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